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Now a global and transnational phenomenon, hip hop culture
continues to affect and be affected by the institutional, cultural,
religious, social, economic and political landscape of American
society and beyond. Over the past two decades, numerous disciplines
have taken up hip hop culture for its intellectual weight and
contributions to the cultural life and self-understanding of the
United States. More recently, the academic study of religion has
given hip hop culture closer and more critical attention, yet this
conversation is often limited to discussions of hip hop and
traditional understandings of religion and a methodological
hyper-focus on lyrical and textual analyses. Religion in Hip Hop:
Mapping the Terrain provides an important step in advancing and
mapping this new field of Religion and Hip Hop Studies. The volume
features 14 original contributions representative of this new
terrain within three sections representing major thematic issues
over the past two decades. The Preface is written by one of the
most prolific and founding scholars of this area of study, Michael
Eric Dyson, and the inclusion of and collaboration with Bernard
'Bun B' Freeman fosters a perspective internal to Hip Hop and
encourages conversation between artists and academics.
Now a global and transnational phenomenon, hip hop culture
continues to affect and be affected by the institutional, cultural,
religious, social, economic and political landscape of American
society and beyond. Over the past two decades, numerous disciplines
have taken up hip hop culture for its intellectual weight and
contributions to the cultural life and self-understanding of the
United States. More recently, the academic study of religion has
given hip hop culture closer and more critical attention, yet this
conversation is often limited to discussions of hip hop and
traditional understandings of religion and a methodological
hyper-focus on lyrical and textual analyses. Religion in Hip Hop:
Mapping the Terrain provides an important step in advancing and
mapping this new field of Religion and Hip Hop Studies. The volume
features 14 original contributions representative of this new
terrain within three sections representing major thematic issues
over the past two decades. The Preface is written by one of the
most prolific and founding scholars of this area of study, Michael
Eric Dyson, and the inclusion of and collaboration with Bernard
'Bun B' Freeman fosters a perspective internal to Hip Hop and
encourages conversation between artists and academics.
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